Yesterday was the Los Angeles screening of the 6 minute prologue for The Dark Knight Rises for reporters and journalists, and of course, the web monkeys over at Batman-News got a hold of the detailed description of Bane's first appearance.

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Ice. Cold. Crystalized imagery and a very familiar logo of a Bat.Jim Gordon at Harvey Dents funeral gives a eulogy, a few words aboutinspiring others…

CUT—An unnamed mountainous region.A jeep rides along the landscape. Hooded men in the back of a jeep aredriven to a small plane… the jeep is met by an armed CIA agent whotakes into custody a political VIP, who is traveling with these hoodedmen… or is he? The CIA Douche learns that one of the hooded men isBANE?!

The hooded men, along with the political VIP are loaded onto the plane.The plane takes to the air as the CIA douchebag interrogates thosetaken on board. One of the hooded men is dangled outside the plane andquestioned/threatened and when the CIA agent doesn’t get what hewants, he fires his weapon (next to the hooded man’s ear, he is notkilled) and then begins to question the other hooded man. That hoodedman is unmasked and revealed to be… Bane!

CIA DOUCHE: Was it your plan all along to be captured?Suddenly, a much larger plane overtakes the smaller plane occupied byCIA Douche, Bane and hostages. Operatives from the larger planedescend onto the smaller one–Bane in all his Ventilator glory is revealed….CIA DOUCHE: If I takethis off, will you die?BANE: No. But I will be in a lot of pain.BAM!

Operatives from the larger plane fire upon the interior of the planeinterrupting the interrogation.The larger plane has ahold of the smaller one as it pulls it by wiresthrowing all the passengers downward in a disorienting fashion.After quickly overtaking the plane, Bane’s operatives bring in a manwith inside a body bag. This man is dead or looks barely alive. Banethen takes the VIP political prisoner and inserts a tube and transfersblood from the body bag man. (It’s confusing as to why this isimportant.)

AND THEN… in a scene that no words will be able to do justice, ahole is cut from the smaller plane and a wire takes Bane and the VIPpolitico through the rear of the plane as the smaller plane is rippedapart and is destroyed while members of Bane’s team sacrifice theirlives going down with the small plane. (Again, it should be stressed,this description pales to what you will actually see, it’s a truespectacle.)

The chant can be heard at the end… Deh-Shay! Bah-Sah-Ra!The scene is followed by a montage that includes many images we’veseen, the most striking includes the Bat-copter chasing down fatiguedBatmobiles down the streets of Gotham, and a final shocking image ofBane tossing away a shattered and torn Batman mask into rubble…The only complaint about the 7 minute prologue was echoed by all inattendace: Bane’s dialog is very difficult to understand. ImagineDarth Vader with a very thick accent. Hopefully this will be fixed inthe final film.

Overall this opening scene is confusing, epic, and will leaveaudiences speechless. All in a good way.

All I have to say is, we have a week to find out how 'bad ass' this intro is. For those of you who don't know, the 6 minute prologue premieres next weekend with Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol at select IMAX theatres. :}

For legality, beefcakey Bane is beefcakey

D'awwww. :)

On an unrelated note, Nicola Scott can draw some muscles, yo. *_____________*